On 25 Sep 2002 @ 3:06pm (+1000), Dr. Rene Hexel wrote:
DRH> On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 09:19, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
DRH>
DRH> > ...i think we're in the clear at this point.
DRH>
DRH> Okay, I have update pan to 0.13.0 now.
cool thanks. i've been watching the CVS snapshots of this app for a while.
they've only recently fixed some serious bugs/leaks in resource management.
this is one of those wonderful GTK apps (kinkda like xchat) that likes to
arbitrarily grow > 64meg resident RAM.
-lava
DRH>
DRH> > ...so i guess a LOT of major GTK apps are gonna be depending on gtk2/glib2
DRH> > soon, as they do, how are we going to adjust?
DRH>
DRH> Since gtk and gtk2 can live side-by-side, there should not be much of
DRH> a problem.
DRH>
DRH> > A lot of KDE apps are duplates w/ v2 v.s. v3
DRH>
DRH> I don't know about whether KDE2 and 3 can be installed at the same
DRH> time. But for GTK (and also GNOME) applications, having both sets of
DRH> libraries installed works fine. Therefore, upgrading on a package by
DRH> package basis should be okay.
DRH>
DRH> Keeping older versions of packages IMHO only makes sense if that
DRH> package is a prerequisite for others or where it is otherwise desirable
DRH> to have two versions available. But that's not gtk/glib/gnome-specific,
DRH> we have that for a lot of packages ...
DRH>
DRH> Cheers
DRH> ,
DRH> Rene
DRH>
DRH>